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LIVING WITH THE ENEMY
Who could have imagined, as we hugged and kissed each other last New Year’s Eve, that three months later we’d be embracing masks and swapping our cosy six degrees of separation for a clinical two metres? We’re at war suffering heavy losses, the global economy is on a ventilator and, if you’re lucky enough to still have a job, you could be working at the frontline or facing the invisible enemy on the daily commute. Meanwhile, as Spain moves into June and resorts emerge from ICU with a risk of regression, no one on these sunny shores is sure when we’ll see foreign tourists again. It’s life, but not as we know it. As we transition out of Lockdown into the New Normal, Belinda Beckett finds out what it might mean.
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